The celebrated Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor of England in the time of Henry VII of whom Anthony Wood states, "that he was a wise and eloquent man, but in his nature harsh and haught - that he was much accepter by the King, but envy'd by the nobility, and hated by the people. He won the King's mind with secrecy and diligence, chiefly because he was his old servant in his less fortunes, and for that also he was in his affections, not without inveterate malice against the House of York, under which he had been in trouble."